1st Edition
Seventeenth-Century English Recipe Books: Cooking, Physic and Chirurgery in the Works of W.M. and Queen Henrietta Maria, and of Mary Tillinghast Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Three, Volume 4
Edited By Elizabeth Spiller
Copyright 2008
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
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Recipe books are a key part of food history; they register the ideals and practices of domestic work, physical health and sustenance and they are at the heart of material culture as it was experienced by early modern Englishwomen. In a world in which daily sustenance and physical health were primarily women's responsibilities, women were central to these texts that record what was both a... Read more
Contents: Preface by the General Editors; Introductory note; W[alter?] M[ontague?] and Queen Henrietta Maria: The Queen's closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times, many whereof were honoured with her own practice, when she pleased to descend to these more private recreations (1655). Mary Tillinghast: Rare and excellent receipts. Experienc'd, and taught by Mrs Mary Tillinghast (1690).
Biography
Elizabeth Spiller, is based in the Department of English, at Florida State University, USA.
